Hose-supporter loop.



PATENTED MAY 22, 1906.

1. B. KLEINE-RT. Hos SUPPORTER LOOP. APPLICATION FILED MAY 9, 1905.

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enrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAO B. KLEINERT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO I. B. KLEINERT RUBBER COMPANY,

A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

HOSE-SUPPORTER LOOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1906.

Application filed May 9, 1905. Serial No. 259,618.

To will whom, it 71mg/ concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC B. KLEINERT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hose- Supporter Loops, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hose supporter loops such as are used in connection with a button for engaging the hem or upper edge of hose or other garment or for like purposes.

It consists in providing improved and simplified means for attaching the hose-supporter loop to the tape or like fabric by which it is suspended. Where these loops are made of wire, it has usually been considered necessary to provide them'with a separate eye or slot of a length substantially equal to the width of the tape and relatively narrow, in which the tape was engaged, this eye being connected to the loop proper by a couplingferrule. The only advantage of this eye is to secure the longitudinal alinement of the tape and the supporter-loop, the edges of the tape engaging at the ends of the eye, so as to prevent its turning therein. Without this eye the ordinary straight bar at the top of the loop would swing and twist out of alinement with the tape, thereby stretching the elastic material of the tape unevenly and presenting an awkward or awry appearance.

My invention consists in forming the upper l bar of the supporter-loop with an inwardly or downwardly projecting shoulder or curve, so that when stitched into the end of the vtape it prevents any disadvantageous relative movement of the two.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents so much of a hose or other garment-supporter as is necessary to illustrate my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of a supportenloop detached.

1 designates a loop, the lower sides 11 of which are substantially arallel and spaced apart toreceive the shank of a button in the usual manner. The loop is shown as made of wire and has its upper ends 12 bent toward each other to form the upper bar. These are bent inward or downward at 13 to form a curve or shoulder, as shown. The abutting ends 1 3 of the bar 12 may advantageously be covered by a sheet-metal ferrule 2 in the usual manner. The ferrule may be preferably secured on the ends 13 of the bar 12 by forming therein indentations by which points of metal forming part of the ferrule are indented into the body of the bar in the usual manner. These punch-marksA or indentations 14 are clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. When the upper bar 12 of the loop is engaged between the lines of stitching 31 on the tape 3, as shown in Fig. 1, it will be seen that the bar is securely held in place on the tape and that any displacement from their longitudinal alineinent is prac tically impossible.

It is evident that the shape of the loop may vary considerably from that shown in the drawings-c. g., its lower portion may bear any required relation to the button Ll.

The essence of the present invention, as hereinbefore set forth, resides in the formation of a hose-supporter loop with a curved or bent upper bar which is securely attached in any suitable manner-such, for example, as by a line of stitching to the hose-supporter tape. The advantage of the bent upper bar is lost unless said bar be securely attached to the supporter-tape, as the sole purpose of the bend is to enable the stitching or other secure fastening to prevent longitudinal movement of the upper bar, as usually occurs when the upper bar is straight.

Without specifying materials or enumerating equivalents, what I claim is- A hose-supporter comprising an attaching tape, a hose-supporter loop having an inwardly-bent upper bar, and a line of stitching following the bend of the upper bar and securely fastening said bar to the tape, whereby endwise movement of the upper bar is prevented by the line of stitching.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ISAAC B. KLEINERT. Witnesses:

EDWARD CossENAs, ARTHUR B. SALINGER. l 

